A firefighter recruit has demonstrated that he had completed the minimum period of employment, despite the employer notifying him of its decision to terminate his employment just three and a half months after it commenced.

TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT: DISMISSAL FOR “EXTREME” SOCIAL MEDIA COMMENTS UPHELD

A Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia overturned a decision which had overturned the decommissioning and dismissal of a senior army officer from the Army Reserve on the ground that those actions contravened his implied constitutional freedoms of political expression and communication. The full court instead held that the statute upon which that termination was based did not contravene that freedom and so the dismissal was to stand.

The Federal Circuit Court of Australia held that an employee who entered into a Deed of Settlement as a means of avoiding termination of her employment could not subsequently complain to have been discriminated against in the making and adhering to that Deed.

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